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Regular Hosts:
Amber, Ashlee, Dave, Jason, Sam
Guest Hosts:
Lupa, Taylor Ellwood, Dan from Pittsburgh
2:49
Amazon.com’s removal of “Buy Now” buttons, amazon prime and super-saver shipping from print on demand services other than Amazon’s BookSurge service.
3:30
What is print-on-demand?
5:05
Why there are a lot of Pagan 101 books in mainstream bookstores
5:25
Print on demand allows for printing of books on niche topics
6:15
Why books are better than websites
6:45
What are small presses doing to counteract this situation?
7:45
Amazon.com has become a vertical monopoly
8:00
How small presses work
10:45
BookSurge is a low-quality print on demand service.
12:31
Immanion Press
12:50
Pop Culture Magic wasn’t published in the mainstream because it was “too controversial”
13:00
Immanion Press as a publisher of metaphysical books.
15:50
How Lupa and Taylor met through Immanion Press
16:00
Benefits of working with Immanion press
17:00
Are there editors and layout techs at Immanion Press?
18:00
There’s a lot of work to be done with publishing a book after a book is written
20:20
Tips for those looking to write a book
24:00
Tips for aspiring authors
25:35
Don’t go into self-publishing to avoiding the editing process
30:00
Your worth isn’t wrapped up in your work, separate your ego from your work
34:00
Editing for accuracy as well as writing style
36:55
Anthologies
38:45
Eco Shamanism and Lupa’s experiences on a Shamanic path
43:15
Plastic Shamans vs. white people genuinely following a shamanic calling
48:15
Adopted members of tribes
51:22
Authenticity
52:00
How Shamans confirm the authenticity of other Shamans
52:30
Being hypercritical is being more in tune with one’s own ego than how things actually are
52:55
Being part of mainstream America
58:00
The shaman path is a hard path to follow. Sometimes the spirits tell you to ask questions, and that alone offends people.

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